Sentence examples for smaller sterile from inspiring English sources

Only one female and up to three males in the colony reproduce, while the rest of the members are smaller, sterile and function as workers.

Mice lacking SIRT1 survive when outbred but yield smaller, sterile mice with developmental defects [ 10, 11].

Cells were detached using Trypsin EDTA (ScienCell), trypsin activity was neutralized with the addition of ECM plus FBS, and the resulting cell slurry was homogenized by passing through gradually smaller sterile glass pipettes.

All donor mothers in the unit use hand expression to express breastmilk into a 250 ml sterile glass jar which is then pasteurized by a breastmilk bank assistant, rapidly cooled and then decanted into a smaller sterile glass jar for storing.

"It was feed!" she says now, in the small, sterile meeting room in which we talk.

She was a quietly humorous woman in a small, sterile office that she'd tried to soften - a handmade draught excluder, painted stones for paper weights, pictures (from former patients?) lining the walls.

But it was also about more: my world progressively shrinking to a small, sterile, asteroidal universe between the interminable nausea and the chemobrain that left my head both empty and feverish, between survival and death.

A duplicate of his windpipe was made from tiny fibers of a type of plastic called PET, seeded with stem cells from Mr. Lyles's bone marrow and allowed to incubate for two days in a small sterile box called a bioreactor.

Reaching the top floor of the 170-year-old former mission building that Elbow call home, the stereotype of the small, sterile recording studio is immediately shattered.

I sat in a small, sterile waiting room of the Adelanto immigrant detention center in the high desert northeast of Los Angeles last week, facing a little girl.

Each is displayed on an eye-level pedestal that's lit from below with mesmerizing clarity in a small, sterile room.